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Frank Herbert: "In the Dune series, I invented the Tleilaxu Axlotl Tanks as a cautionary device."
This scientist: ...
I am once again reminding everyone that just because something is possible doesn't mean that it must or even should be done. "Someone else will do it first" is just inevitabilism with jingoistic characteristics. :bernie-pout:
"If we aren't the first to create the Bezzos Ghola, someone else might!"
Brain dead patients don't last 9 months, pregnancy is not something that's easy on even healthy bodies. This wouldn't even work. Guaruntee they're not thinking of brain dead (as in intubated patients on a bunch of protocols), they're thinking of like comatose patients.
Hey while you've been unconscious, we used your body to make some quick bucks. After deducting the relevant fees, here's $20 for you. Don't spend it all in one place~
Because capitalism, if this practice was normalized, it would be pressured by capitalist interests to happen more often with a mandate for increased production.
That's it. I am not interested in some bullshit philosophical debate here. That's what would happen. The pattern is predictable and inevitable. More people would be made "brain-dead" by whatever means are available to make number go up.
like something out of a disturbing sci-fi novel
not like, literally straight from Frank Herbert:
An axlotl tank is essentially a brain-dead woman whose womb is used as a tank to create gholas. The Bene Tleilax's use of their women in this capacity explains why no one has ever seen a Tleilaxu female.
More people would be made “brain-dead” by whatever means are available to make number go up.
Like I said, I think the philosophical debate is pointless or even harmful when the imminent possibility is capitalism driving to make more people “brain-dead” by whatever means are available (changes in police procedures to cause more "unavoidable tragedies," medical decisions made by suits and pressed down to doctors, and so on) to make number go up.
Very good take. It doesn't matter whether or not the practice itself would be ethical in a vacuum because we don't live in a vacuum, we live in the real world where things that are valuable for the ruling class are incentivized.
Canada's (CW: suicide)
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ongoing attempts to coerce undesirable people into committing suicide are a glaring example of that already happening.
WTF is this TERF fucking website?!?!? Additional CW warning Transphobia galore in sidebar
That's a fresh new horror, but I wouldn't worry about this.
This is being proposed by a philosopher, not a medical researcher. I don't think there's any way for this to work, medically. I also don't think there's any way for this to work economically; you could pay a destitute woman to act as a surrogate for far cheaper than it would take to keep a brain dead patient alive. Our society is not short on ways to exploit women.
Here's a collection of the author's papers. As you can see, lady has some hangups.
Actually we have Long term acute care facilities where mostly government money goes to keeping brain dead people on life support for years. More money than we will ever see just straight into corporate pockets for people who only have enough functioning brain stem left to suffer. It is wild.
"The prospect of male pregnancy is not, as many would imagine, fanciful, or a piece of science fiction,” Smajdor says, adding that “the liver is a promising implantation site, because of its excellent blood supply.”
Okay, now, assuming she's not just blowing smoke (and I don't have any idea whether it's safe to assume that,) this would actually be worth writing home about. Dr. Smajdor should drop all the other bullshit immediately, focus on this, and re-emerge into the public eye when she wants non-comatose AMAB volunteers.
empathy being useless in medicine
No wonder she's dancing amazingly close to that philosophical cognitohazard where it's cool and good to (CW: gore)
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ambush and chop up people for organs to multiply their net utility to others.
This is sort of related (CW: conceptual gore)
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/426
This is called a hepatic ectopic pregnancy, and you can die from it (risk of massive hemorrhage). Usually they terminate - usually here is only covering the percentage of people who are denied abortions. You might be better off waiting for uterus transplants tbh, I'm willing to sign up for that too!
It is pure garbage journal, I’ve skimmed couple of articles, completely vibes, like New York post opinion level, but with citations of some garbage sprinkled in
Pay money to publish, get published paper in resume, journal gets sweet institution money model
Awe freakin sweet Lois
Man made horrors beyond my comprehension
Hehehehehehehehe
Saw this on :reddit-logo: earlier today and was wondering when it'd pop up here. Whole thing gives me Unabomber thoughts and how any medical professional cool with this is already dead inside should not be viewed as a human being.
Sadly many medical programs, nursing programs, medical related fields treat ethics as a joke or have like only one course that covers generalized "do no harm" ethics which is insufficient but something a capitalist fueled hellscape does not incentive (stuff like necropolitics is never discussed in classes covering "ethics and lobbying" obviously).
